Research Facilities on Robotics department at Karunya University
Research Facilities


Robotics
Good ambience for research and innovation in Robotics is facilitated in the robotics laboratory that houses equipments of international standards. Few of the research domains are
- Path Planning and Navigation of Autonomous bots using Quansar Qbot 2
- Autonomous Ground Mobile Robot with Open Architecture
- Rehabilitation Robotics using Edu Exo Arm that includes Musculoskeletal extension and sensory feedback for position sensing
- Embedded platforms to design and implement Mobile Robotic applications for farmers.
- Sanitation Bots embedded with intelligence to perform cleaning and mopping applications.


Industrial Automation
Research in Industrial Automation covers the application of control theory, modeling, computing and operations for providing solution to control problems of process industries. It includes the following research areas:
- Process modeling and simulation
- Plant monitoring
- Control techniques and algorithm
- Networked control system
- Design of DCS and SCADA
- Process control area networks


Industrial Instrumentation
Industrial instrumentation research focuses on the design and development of techniques and instruments used for indicating, measuring and recording physical quantities in industry. It includes the following research areas:
- Smart instrumentation
- Wireless instrumentation
- MEMS, sensors and actuators
- Standardization
- Distributed measurements
- Data acquisition